Cyclist completes record-breaking ride over length of New Zealand
JOHN VELVIN/STUFF Joanna Sharpe passed through Timaru on Saturday morning on her bike ride from Cape Reinga to Bluff to raise bowel cancer awareness. (File photo) A woman cycling from Cape Reinga to Bluff to raise bowel cancer awareness has completed the 2000-kilometre ride in under a week. Joanna Sharpe, 45, of Auckland, is expected to have set a Guinness world record after becoming the first woman to complete The Long White Ride, which demands participants to cycle the length of New Zealand almost non-stop. “The reason we’re doing this is to raise awareness of bowel cancer and encoura...
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